My Favorite Prospects for the New TV Season

I’m watching the news about new TV shows for the upcoming season. A few have caught my eye as hopeful prospects. These series have women in leading roles, or women I like in supporting roles. These are the shows I’ll watch for sure. There may be others that I’ll watch as well, but these are my favorites so far.

Conviction

Conviction stars Hayley Atwell as Hayes Morrison, a former First Daughter and bad girl. She takes a job offered from her former nemesis, NY District Attorney Wayne Wallis (Eddie Cahill), to avoid jail time for cocaine possession and avoid hurting her mother’s Senate campaign.

Taken

The attraction in Taken is singularly Jennifer Beals. Taken is the prequel to the first film of 3 films by this name in which the main character was played by Liam Neeson. Clive Standen plays a young version of Bryan Mills, the main character.

The previews look like it will mostly be killing. Even Jennifer Beals may not be enough to keep me watching through that, but I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve seen it.

Also starring in Taken are Gaius Charles and Monique Gabriela Curnen.

Taken is set to start mid-season, but Jennifer Beals will be in season 3 of The Night Shift at the start of the new season. Beals all around.

Doubt

Doubt had to be reshot because of cast changes, so all I can offer you at the moment is this tweet of Katherine Heigl and Laverne Cox at work on the series.

Doubt is about a successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who becomes romantically involved with a client who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Also featured in Doubt are Steven Pasquale and Teddy Sears.

Supergirl

Supergirl was booted out of it’s first home at CBS. The good news is that Supergirl was picked up by The CW.

Drew is on my Wish List

Drew with Sarah Shahi about a grown up Nancy Drew was rejected by CBS as being “too female.” It’s on my wish list for some other network to pick up.

Have you been watching the news about upcoming shows for the 2016 TV season? What looks good to you?

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